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SummaryDr. Rafael L. Bras (born 1950) is an American Civil Engineer and currently serves as Provost to the Georgia Institute of Technology. Bras was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He studied at MIT, where he received a B.S. in 1972, an M.S., 1974, and an Sc.D., 1975. On completion of his doctorate, he worked for a time as an assistant professor at the University of Puerto Rico school of engineering, and performed some consulting work on the island. He returned to MIT where he has held multiple positions. His last position there was an endowed professorship in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is a former department head, and also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. He has served as Associate Director, Center for Global Change Science.

Bras, R.L. and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, “Evaluation of mean square error involved in approximating the areal average of a rainfall event by a discrete summation,” Water Resources Research, 12(2):181-184, 1976.

Ijjasz-Vasquez, E.J., R.L. Bras and G.E. Moglen, “Sensitivity of a basin evolution model to the nature of runoff production and to initial conditions,” Water Resources Research, 28(10): 2733-2741, 1992.

Grimaldi, S., V. Teles and R.L. Bras, “Preserving first and second moments of the slope area relationship during the interpolation of digital elevation models,” Advances in Water Resources, 28(6):583-588, 2005.

Bras, R.L. and F. Siccardi, Editors, Natural Disasters in European Mediterranean Countries, Selected Papers from Workshop held in Colombella, Perugia, Italy, June 27-July 1, 1988, National Research Council of Italy.